Cookie Audit

Performing a Cookie Audit is one of the first steps to perform to achieve compliance with the UK cookie law / EU cookie directive.

There are a number ways of doing it

Get someone else to do it for you. Depending on who you hire, this may cost a lot of money.

Use a FREE tool and try to do it yourself

Use an automated tool that predicts the cookies your site will serve.

A combination of the above.

Hire someone to do a cookie audit

If you want to do this then use Google search for “cookie audit”.

Use a FREE tool

You can use a tool such as the Cookie Audit Tool from attacat to help you identify the cookies your website serves up. This is a manual tool – you have to drive it.

Alternatively, use the cookiecert.com service. This tool uses autobots to visit your site.

My experience with cookiecert is mixed; it seems to report cookies that come from other sites (e.g. PayPal) or it can be tricked into not finding any cookies (e.g. paulsmith.co.uk – attacat reports 7 cookies on the home page)